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Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.
Try to commit an act of writing
and they will jump overboard to get away.


William Zinnser

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all of life:
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KAMAND KOJOURI Commit to being happy and
make the choices that will
support your commitment.
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you may never catch them
but if you follow them
they will lead...
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May have been your fatal mistake!
Your smooth complexio...
KEVIN MISSEN One sip of this wine
and you will go mad with drunkenness.
You will drop your masks
KAMAND KOJOURI ... so this is for us.
This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love
and...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Someone will have to weed and spread
The young sprouts. Sprinkle them in the hour
When shado...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS 7 things negative people will do to you. They will...
1. Demean your value;
2. Destroy yo...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?

Have you declared yourself enlightened...
PETER J. CARROLL Dare to follow your own paths.
Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA You may follow the footsteps
The whole day will pass
With you going around in circles
AVIJEET DAS Jesus is the perfect name!
He who put away his fame!
And persecuted in shame!
That yo...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR and you invented me
and I invented you
and that's why we don't
get along
on this...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Exactly when will you give up?

When things will seem out of your hands ?

When ...
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HIMMILICIOUS I want to write something
so simply
about love
or about pain
that even
...
MARY OLIVER And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will mo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
Any time you tolerate...
COLIN POWELL Don't try to compete, Create!
Don't try to compare, Dominate!
Don't try to complain, Chang...
FARSHAD ASL Be generous with your smile and try not to frown.
And you will see my children; your smile will...
BENNY BELLAMACINA Create an inspirational environment for Yourself. Get rid your life of things that will make you anx...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Grief is an emotional rollercoaster.
You will have your ups and downs
and moments of terro...
KATE MCGAHAN Negative Thoughts, Actions
and Deeds Create Emotions,
and these Emotions WILL
EAT YOU...
ALLAN RUFUS Better associations
__________________

If you associate yourself with a change maker...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Better Associations:

If you associate yourself with a change maker,
Your life will b...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Do not hold your breath for anyone,
Do not wish your lungs to be still,
It may delay the c...
ERIN HANSON If you prefer smoke over fire
then get up now and leave.
For I do not intend to perfume ADYASHANTI BEWARE OF THOSE

Beware of those who are bitter,
For they will never allow you
T...
SUZY KASSEM The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own d...
DEREK WALCOTT At the end of the day, you should try to remember that it's not about the number of followers you ha...
MALAK EL HALABI What it means to be authentic:
- to be more concerned with truth than opinions
- to be sin...
SUE FITZMAURICE Things that will make you unstoppable;
Get the naysayers out of your life,
Take charge of ...
GERMANY KENT to fight for each minute is to
fight for what is possible within
yourself,
so that y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other....
SUZY KASSEM Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.
The secret is in action -...
NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ I will take your heart.
I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
...
LANGSTON HUGHES I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE...
AND BEG EVERYONE...
TO BE A HERO...
AND SAVE THE YAZIDI NATI...
WIDAD AKREYI What sorts of sin?"

Any sort. When other people commit them, you are startled, but when y...
ELSPETH HUXLEY What are the four 'D' steps that ensure success?

1) DREAM
2) DESIRE
3) DETERMIN...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS CALL YOURSELF

Look deep in the mirror
And say: 'I LOVE YOU'
And immediately
SUZY KASSEM You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
an...
DR. SEUSS Courage must come from the soul within,
The man must furnish the will to win.
So figure it ou...
EDGAR A. GUEST 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will ...
LAO TZU Stay away from her."
"Okay."
"Keep your hands off her."
"I'll try."
He scowled a...
JENNIFER ECHOLS There will always be those
who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen ...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif...
JANE AUSTEN TO ALL MANKIND

Speak kind words
to mankind
and the unkind
will attack you....
SUZY KASSEM And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

K...
DR. SEUSS I Will Follow Anyone
And Tell Everyone
How They Abduct...
And Torture Children
...
WIDAD AKREYI I hope to inspire you to recognize that your reason for existence is to pursue the things that excit...
MICHAEL SANDERS ...passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers...
MIGNON FOGARTY I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
AND TELL EVERYONE
HOW THEY SPONSOR...
THE KILLING OF THE YAZIDI ...
WIDAD AKREYI DON'T TELL YOUR SECRETS.
A whisper can betray you.
DON'T EVER STOP.
They will always ...
MICHELLE GAGNON If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If...
LAO TZU Share yourself with me.
I will never judge you.
I am here
and I will stay here KAMAND KOJOURI Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act."
"To be myself, I have to put on an act," Gi...
PHILIP PULLMAN YOUR GREATER ANIMAL


They say that if you are
Ever confronted by
A lion or...
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can start writing your ...
MARK ALLEN SMITH Let your wisdom guide you
On your own personal journey
By listening to your heart
Yo...
KAREN HACKEL If you trust the winner within you, you will win.
If you can keep your courage, you will go so f...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I believe that we are who we choose to be.

Nobody is going to come and save you. You've g...
BARRY MANILOW Your past and your pain will certainly impact you,
but they don’t have to define you. You get...
SCOTT STABILE The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow y...
NIECY NASH It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will not try to make you love me, to respect me or commit yourself to me. Bye.
ANE KRSTEVSKA I will follow you,
my love,
to the edge of all our days,
to our very last
tom...
ATTICUS POETRY The biggest mistake people make when trying to be authentic is just that: they try. They see these r...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA I will follow anyone...
And remind everyone...
Of enslaved Yazidi women...
Raped... WIDAD AKREYI Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left. DR. SEUSS Can you forgive her? Can you do that?
There was no response.
Because if you can start to f...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH I promise I'll never tell."

"Don't promise that," he said in an ultraserious voice. "If t...
JERI SMITH-READY Before you commit to loving someone,
make effort to understand their heart,
make effort to...
DRISHTI BABLANI, WORDIONS You shall be my roots and
I will be your shade,
though the sun burns my leaves.

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ALEXANDRA BRACKEN And when you're alone, there's a very good chance
you'll meet things that scare you right out o...
DR. SEUSS And i can't get you out of my head,
how in the world will i begin
to let you walk right ou...
TONI BRAXTON And you are mine, and you will be mine. They
will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone
CHARLAINE HARRIS love yourself first,
and you will always be in love.
AVA. You are always afraid that somebody may think you a fool. You are afraid that if others think you to...
OSHO Don’t turn your face away.
Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know.<...
VASHTI QUIROZ-VEGA The Way It Is

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But i...
WILLIAM STAFFORD TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE

People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run o...
NIKITTA GILL Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-...
WENDELL BERRY Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actio...
LAO TZU Oh dear heart,
save yourself.
will you not sing yourself to sleep
humming wishes you...
HANNAH CAO A double-edged sword
One side destroys
One releases
I am your Gordian knot
Will ...
P.C. CAST Have the STRENGTH to say “no” to the status quo.

Have the WILL to listen to the deep...
RICHIE NORTON From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow yo...
KAILASH SATYARTHI Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet y...
DEREK WALCOTT THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

1. We are here to help you.
2. You...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that NEIL GAIMAN

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with t...
WILLIAM PENN For we put the power in the people.
WILLIAM PENN They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
WILLIAM PENN I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any singl...
WILLIAM PITT Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man.
He that lives in Love lives in God, say...
WILLIAM PENN Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you h...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good ...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a might...
WILLIAM STYRON I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the...
WILLIAM STYRON I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain ...
WILLIAM STYRON Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a frien...
WILLIAM STYRON Remember to never split an infinitive.
The passive voice should never be used.
Do not put stat...
WILLIAM SAFIRE